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Situate is a related term of billet.


As a verb situate

is to place on or into a physical location most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.

As an adjective situate

is situated.

As a noun billet is

ticket.

situate

English

Alternative forms

* scituate

Verb

(situat)
  • To place on or into a physical location. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle.
    • The statue is situated''' in a corner hardly visible to the public, except through a window from an outside maintenance area '''situated behind the building.
  • To place or put into an intangible place or position, such as social, ethical, fictional, etc. Most commonly used adjectivally in past participle and often used figuratively.
    • The mayor is situated between probable censure and possible recall.

    Related terms

    * site * situation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated.
  • * , II.ii.3:
    • Wadley in Berkshire is situate in a vale, though not so fertile a soil as some vales afford […].
  • * Milton
    • Pleasure situate in hill and dale.

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    billet

    English

    (wikipedia billet)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bylet, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short informal letter.
  • *
    • However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet
  • A written order to quarter soldiers.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets .}}
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • 17 June 1940': Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ ' billet . Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
  • An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}

    Verb

  • To lodge soldiers, usually by order.
  • * (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
    • Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
  • To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
  • (label) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) billette, from ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
  • a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
  • * Shakespeare
    • They shall beat out my brains with billets .
  • (heraldiccharge) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
  • (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
  • (saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
  • A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
    • (Knight)